| Daily
Thought – April 9, 2004 |
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| LIVING THE SOLUTION WITH
DAILY INSPIRATION |
I was given
the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch
with my limitations. Satan's angel did his best to
get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my
knees. No danger then of walking around high and mighty!
At first I didn't think of it as a gift, and begged
God to remove it. Three times I did that, and then
he told me,
My grace is enough; it's all you need.
My strength comes into its own in your weakness.
Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I
quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating
the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving
in on my weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:7-9, the Message)
Does God allow things in our lives
that we think are holding us back, our "handicaps"?
Does God allow Satan to mess with us and try to get
us down? Does God answer no to prayer? (I believe that
God always answers prayer, just sometimes it's no and
we don't want to hear that.)
We forget that God is most interested in our spiritual
development and growth, not our comfort and ease of
life here. He will do and allow what He needs to keep
us dependent on Him. (Not that in reality we are not
always and totally dependent on God but we have a way,
when we are doing well, to want to take the credit;
become "self" dependent.) He wants and needs
us to continually becoming more like Christ and anything
that would get in the way He will address as we see
in Paul's case.
So not everything is as it seems. There may be things
in your life that you feel are holding you back, preventing
you from being what you want to be. A " handicap" but
maybe, just maybe, God allows those things to keep you
humble and usable. So do as Paul did: pray, and if God
does not remove them then look at them as a blessing,
a gift and not a handicap preventing you from become "self" proud
and unusable for God.
Live it Fierce
Pete Reinbold
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